Introducing WebsiteSpark (and more)

Today, Microsoft announced the WebsiteSpark program, which continues the tradition established by DreamSpark and BizSpark to provide web application developers and designers access to tools, training, and hosting providers to support their solutions.

Full program details and application procedures can be found here; here are some of the highlights:

Access to the Marketplace and Web App Gallery, where customers can find participating WebsiteSpark developers, and developers and designers can showcase their own applications.

Support services, including online training, access to MSDN managed newsgroups, and two professional support incidents via Microsoft.

If all this looks great, but you don’t know where to start, check out the ASP.NET Learn site, and specifically the great set of new videos from Joe Stagner on general ASP.NET and getting started on your development trek with either Visual Studio or Microsoft’s free IDE for Web application developers, Visual Web Developer.

For more information on WebsiteSpark, the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, and web technologies in general, visit the Microsoft /web site.